Year: 2014
Helsinki Port / Ferry Terminals
View of the harbour in the centre of Helsinki. The Silja Line ferry terminal is on the right.
Helsinki Skyline by Day
A winter panoramic view of the Finnish capital.
Helsinki Skyline Panorama by Night
Panoramic View over Helsinki’s Skyline on a winter night. Helsinki in December 2014. All the roofs and all the streets are covered with snow. The light of...
Winter Landscape with Transmission Mast and Moon
The fir trees are thickly padded with snow – a view you might recognise from many Nordic or Lapland photos.
Northern Lights in the Woods
What luck: suddenly there were Northern Lights to marvel at!
Ruka Tunturi
View of snow-covered Ruka Tunturi from state road 5 “Viitostie”. The ski area is brightly lit, a few low-hanging clouds glow pink in the evening light.
Christmas tree in Ruka
Christmas in Ruka, Finland: in principle, you are surrounded by potential Christmas trees – but of course not all trees are decorated for Christmas. Here and there, however, a...
Tracks in the snow
These tracks in the snow are literally form a polar circles – but not the Polar Circle.
Snow and ice and lake and forest and daylight
In this winter picture it is difficult to tell where the fog is actually a cloud – and where the blue sky begins. In any case, it...
Kiutaköngäs National Park
Kiutaköngäs National Park near Ruka, Finland, with its impressive rapids, some of which are frozen here.
Winter forest in the rear view mirror
A drive on a snow-covered road – the picturesque winter forest near Ruka, Finland, in the rear-view mirror.
View of Rukahovi
A snowmobile on the way to Rukahovi
Gas station with snowmobile
Even snowmobiles have to refuel from time to time – since all roads are snow-covered in winter anyway, this is not a...
Ski jumping hill in Ruka / Kuusamo, Finland
This photo was taken late in the evening at Rukatunturi. The ski jump is out of action, but on the other side of Rukatunturi the ski area...
Forest walk in the Snow
In the background the brightly lit Ruka Tunturi
Santa Claus with reindeer in Ruka, Finland
Every year again… Now I just had to re-publish this photo of Santa Claus with reindeer – simply because...
Neighbouring cottage ‘Mökki’ in the forest
View from the kitchen window to the neighbouring wooden hut – ‘Mökki’.
Ruka Tunturi in the mist
Around 12 noon – it doesn’t get much brighter – unless the sun comes through…
Viitostie – Country Road No.5
Driving on the Viitostie – road no.5. View out of the car window – trees or forest or woods pass by.
Finnair Aircraft Wing
On the flight to Helsinki, Finland: looking out of the window at the wing with the Finnair logo.
Baker Street 221B, London
Due to a recent event, I have finally uploaded a few London pictures. I wanted to finally have a picture of 221B Baker Street on the...
London Underground
Action shot in the London Underground: a train of the London Underground, also called “Tube”, enters the station.
London Skyline: Big Ben and Westminster silhouette
The London skyline: the silhouette of Big Ben and Westminster Palace, sunset, River Thames
London Carspotting: Aston Martin DB5
Carspotting in London: Bond-Car Austin Martin DB5
London: St James’s Roman Catholic Church
A “dragon” on the portal of St James’s Roman Catholic Church in George Street
St James’s Roman Catholic Church George Street London
View of St James’s Roman Catholic Church from George Street
London Bus in the Sunshine
Blue sky and sunshine – crowds and double-decker bus on Oxford Street near Hyde Park / Speakers’ Corner
Tower Bridge from above
Landing approach to London Heathrow with a clear view of London. In the foreground the Thames and Tower Bridge – everything else is unfortunately a bit...
Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, second backyard in black and white
Window to the courtyard, half past two in the morning – the building site on the neighbouring property also...
West Berlin style icon: the radio tower
Like a small Eiffel Tower: the West Berlin Radio Tower at the exhibition grounds. Drive-by shooting in West Berlin: some photos can...
Light Border Mauerpark 9. November 2014
Light Border in Mauerpark: the balloons rise into the Berlin sky
Light Border Mauerpark 9. November 2014
The Berlin Wall came down this day 25 years ago – on 9 November 2014 around 7 p.m. – so we made our way...
Dog on Skateboard
We walked along the Light Border at the Engelbecken in Berlin Kreuzberg, when a dog on a skateboard came rolling towards us. He took a quick...
Light Border at Bernauer Strasse
The light border at the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse at night. In the foreground the old cemetery wall, on the left side of the picture the...
Light Border Berlin Wall Bernauer Strasse
Light Border – Berlin Wall Memorial, Bernauer Strasse, Berlin
Light Border at Mauerpark
The Light Border in Mauerpark, view of the amphitheater.
Wall painting in Fürstenberger Straße, Berlin Prenzlauer Berg
A wall painting in an abstract style that was previously unknown to me. The ‘graffito’ can be admired in Fürstenberger Straße in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district….
Neue Nationalgalerie: Festival of Future Nows
Jan Bünnig, Feuerstelle (‘Fireplace’) see also: www.futurenows.net www.janbuennig.com and: www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/neue-nationalgalerie-festival-of-future-nows-… Three days only: Thursday 30 October – Saturday 01 November 2014
Crane Installation with Autumn Sky
A crane is being erected on a new construction site on the corner of Invalidenstrasse and Ackerstrasse (Berlin-Mitte) with the help of a mobile crane. Actually, something like this...
S-Bahn carriage full of Graffiti (Top 2 Bottom)
Once you leave your S-Bahn carriage unattended (perhaps because of yesterday’s locomotive drivers’ strike, which also affected Berlin’s S-Bahn?) and you’ve got the worst of it. Some...
Early morning fog and floodlights at Mauerpark
Autumnal early morning fog at the beginning of October – floodlights of the stadium at Mauerpark / Bernauer Strasse
Berlin Wall Memorial in Autumn – grey-on-grey
During the autumn and winter months, Berlin can ‘shine’ in the most beautiful shades of grey. The colour grey...
Berlin TV Tower in the Sunshine
Lucky again: this year’s Berlin Marathon is again taking place in the best sunshine and summer temperatures. And again a new world record has...
Pre-Christmas in the supermarket
So – meanwhile the supermarket pre-Christmas season already starts in September?!
Advertising Space / Street Art at Schönleinstrasse U-Bahn Station
These spaces in the Schönleinstrasse underground station were presumably meant to display advertising at some point. At the moment, however, there is obviously...
TV Tower in the Evening Light
View in the direction of the TV tower – in the foreground the glowing S-sign of the Nordbahnhof S-Bahn station. Behind it a few houses...
Berlin Wall Memorial Bernauer Strasse (from above)
1989-2014 – this year marks the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall. I took this as an opportunity to add a few...
Rainbow in Wedding
Double rainbow on Saturday afternoon, Brunnenstrasse corner Voltastrasse, Berlin-Wedding. What a weather or storm: first rain, then squalls, then hail, a...
Berlin in April, Chestnut Tree in the Backyard
April in Berlin: the chestnut tree in the courtyard is wearing its greenest shirt, blue sky, white clouds, sunshine, birds chirping – and...
Gap between Buildings with Robot on the Wall in Prenzlauer Berg
Between Prater and Kulturbrauerei – actually between Schönhauser Allee and Kastanienallee – there was, until recently, a car park with lots of small spray-paintings, a few potholes and...